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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1911
Page
2
Real Estate Erwin and Company offers services and notices including fire insurance. Various ads promote pastures for rent, painting supplies, hardware goods, typewriters with discounts, shoe repair pickup and delivery, stock shares for sale, and office supplies. Local firms advertise poultry supplies, furniture, stoves, and interior finishes.
Government positions opening in Athens with examinations upcoming. Notable posts include building inspector in Porto Rico at 1200 dollars yearly, agricultural inspector in the Philippine service at 1400, a geologist for the Philippines, and a thousand press feeder roles at Washington's government printing office. Contact the civil service representative at the Athens post office for qualifications and exam dates.
In St Johnsbury Vermont on August 8 players gathered at Old Pine Golf Club to begin the eleventh annual championship of Vermont. The week will decide championship singles doubles and consolation singles with action continuing through the event.
A collage of small ads offers fire insurance from Lipscomb & Co Real Estate Lipscoms & Co cheap insurance savings bank notes rent listings and job notices. Public notices promote services from Moler College Atlanta and A H Cook while Leonard Linton Spring Water promotes health products.
Secretary F H Eliott of the Touring Club of America will attend the formal opening of the southern department in Atlanta. Dallas D Armstrong, a vice president, will run the new offices with branches planned from North Carolina to Texas. The move aims to boost automobile tourism in the region by providing road data and route advice for members touring the south.
The Elks will not hold their meeting tonight because of the Masonic convention. Signed by GEO. H. PALMER secretary and EL CARITHERS and ERB.
Captain James Watson reports affidavits by Miss Clara Anita Dyer accusing Private George Peters of being an Austrian agent. Peters, stationed at Fort Totten, denies the charges as officials await War Department guidance under the new national defense secrecy law.
Mason jars and automatic sealing jars offered in wholesale and retail lots with prompt delivery. Large stock of glassware including latest patterns in china and table glassware for house use.
Yesterday Atlanta ended a long winless stretch with a 2 to 5 victory over Birmingham, while Memphis topped New Orleans 4 to 2 in New Orleans. Chattanooga beat Montgomery 7 to 3, Nashville defeated Mobile 7 to 2, and in Mobile the Nashville win came in seven innings.
Fleecy Pappa, a seventeen year old Italian lad known for selling ice cream on Athens streets, died yesterday at St Marys hospital. His father mother and one sister are reported extremely ill. the body was taken to a downtown undertaking establishment and burial services were set for 11 oclock at Oconee cemetery.
From Athens Greece comes news of the death of Nick Deakides's infant son Constantine in Greece. The Greek fruit merchant now in Athens Georgia received letters from his mother wife and sister detailing the loss. The child died six months ago but news only reached Nick recently with a hopeful message the boy prayed for his father’s safety before dying.
W P Jones a young negro planned a temperance talk at a prominent church but was found drunk in the pulpit behind the big Bible stand. The mayor fined him five dollars for drunkenness and he was jailed until payment. A Princeton district church group sought to hire him for another talk, but he postponed the engagement indefinitely.
Atlanta August 8 The Georgia Farmers Union backs key bills during the current legislative session led by EB Cabaniss of Oglethorpe former union president and author of the Cabaniss Johnson fertilizer bill requiring labeling of fertilizer contents with penalties. The union also supports three other measures rotation of superior court judges auditing state and county funds and quarterly fee disclosures to the comptroller general with the senate having approved the bills and the house able to move them at session end.
In a hot morning session the mayor’s court heard a Black man charged with “cussing” over watermelon ownership. The judge assessed the offense at ten dollars despite racial associations and local legends linking the fruit to the Black community.
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